<html lang="en"> <head> <title>Searching Properties - GNU Octave</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html"> <meta name="description" content="GNU Octave"> <meta name="generator" content="makeinfo 4.13"> <link title="Top" rel="start" href="index.html#Top"> <link rel="up" href="Graphics-Data-Structures.html#Graphics-Data-Structures" title="Graphics Data Structures"> <link rel="prev" href="Graphics-Object-Properties.html#Graphics-Object-Properties" title="Graphics Object Properties"> <link rel="next" href="Managing-Default-Properties.html#Managing-Default-Properties" title="Managing Default Properties"> <link href="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/" rel="generator-home" title="Texinfo Homepage"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> <style type="text/css"><!-- pre.display { font-family:inherit } pre.format { font-family:inherit } pre.smalldisplay { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallformat { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallexample { font-size:smaller } pre.smalllisp { font-size:smaller } span.sc { font-variant:small-caps } span.roman { font-family:serif; font-weight:normal; } span.sansserif { font-family:sans-serif; font-weight:normal; } --></style> </head> <body> <div class="node"> <a name="Searching-Properties"></a> <p> Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="Managing-Default-Properties.html#Managing-Default-Properties">Managing Default Properties</a>, Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="Graphics-Object-Properties.html#Graphics-Object-Properties">Graphics Object Properties</a>, Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="Graphics-Data-Structures.html#Graphics-Data-Structures">Graphics Data Structures</a> <hr> </div> <h4 class="subsection">15.3.4 Searching Properties</h4> <!-- findobj scripts/plot/findobj.m --> <p><a name="doc_002dfindobj"></a> <div class="defun"> — Function File: <var>h</var> = <b>findobj</b> ()<var><a name="index-findobj-1527"></a></var><br> — Function File: <var>h</var> = <b>findobj</b> (<var>prop_name, prop_value</var>)<var><a name="index-findobj-1528"></a></var><br> — Function File: <var>h</var> = <b>findobj</b> (<var>"-property", prop_name</var>)<var><a name="index-findobj-1529"></a></var><br> — Function File: <var>h</var> = <b>findobj</b> (<var>"-regexp", prop_name, pattern</var>)<var><a name="index-findobj-1530"></a></var><br> — Function File: <var>h</var> = <b>findobj</b> (<var>"flat", <small class="dots">...</small></var>)<var><a name="index-findobj-1531"></a></var><br> — Function File: <var>h</var> = <b>findobj</b> (<var>h, <small class="dots">...</small></var>)<var><a name="index-findobj-1532"></a></var><br> — Function File: <var>h</var> = <b>findobj</b> (<var>h, "-depth", d, <small class="dots">...</small></var>)<var><a name="index-findobj-1533"></a></var><br> <blockquote><p>Find graphics object with specified property values. The simplest form is <pre class="example"> findobj (<var>prop_name</var>, <var>prop_value</var>) </pre> <p class="noindent">which returns all of the handles to the objects with the name <var>prop_name</var> and the name <var>prop_value</var>. The search can be limited to a particular object or set of objects and their descendants by passing a handle or set of handles <var>h</var> as the first argument to <code>findobj</code>. <p>The depth of hierarchy of objects to which to search to can be limited with the "-depth" argument. To limit the number depth of the hierarchy to search to <var>d</var> generations of children, and example is <pre class="example"> findobj (<var>h</var>, "-depth", <var>d</var>, <var>prop_name</var>, <var>prop_value</var>) </pre> <p>Specifying a depth <var>d</var> of 0, limits the search to the set of object passed in <var>h</var>. A depth <var>d</var> of 0 is equivalent to the "-flat" argument. <p>A specified logical operator may be applied to the pairs of <var>prop_name</var> and <var>prop_value</var>. The supported logical operators are "-and", "-or", "-xor", "-not". <p>The objects may also be matched by comparing a regular expression to the property values, where property values that match <code>regexp (</code><var>prop_value</var><code>, </code><var>pattern</var><code>)</code> are returned. Finally, objects may be matched by property name only, using the "-property" option. <!-- Texinfo @sp should work but in practice produces ugly results for HTML. --> <!-- A simple blank line produces the correct behavior. --> <!-- @sp 1 --> <p class="noindent"><strong>See also:</strong> <a href="doc_002dget.html#doc_002dget">get</a>, <a href="doc_002dset.html#doc_002dset">set</a>. </p></blockquote></div> <!-- findall scripts/plot/findall.m --> <p><a name="doc_002dfindall"></a> <div class="defun"> — Function File: <var>h</var> = <b>findall</b> ()<var><a name="index-findall-1534"></a></var><br> — Function File: <var>h</var> = <b>findall</b> (<var>prop_name, prop_value</var>)<var><a name="index-findall-1535"></a></var><br> — Function File: <var>h</var> = <b>findall</b> (<var>h, <small class="dots">...</small></var>)<var><a name="index-findall-1536"></a></var><br> — Function File: <var>h</var> = <b>findall</b> (<var>h, "-depth", d, <small class="dots">...</small></var>)<var><a name="index-findall-1537"></a></var><br> <blockquote><p>Find graphics object with specified property values including hidden handles. <p>This function performs the same function as <code>findobj</code>, but it includes hidden objects in its search. For full documentation, see <code>findobj</code>. <!-- Texinfo @sp should work but in practice produces ugly results for HTML. --> <!-- A simple blank line produces the correct behavior. --> <!-- @sp 1 --> <p class="noindent"><strong>See also:</strong> <a href="doc_002dget.html#doc_002dget">get</a>, <a href="doc_002dset.html#doc_002dset">set</a>, <a href="doc_002dfindobj.html#doc_002dfindobj">findobj</a>, <a href="doc_002dallchild.html#doc_002dallchild">allchild</a>. </p></blockquote></div> </body></html>